Ask HN: How would you adapt ChatGPT to be a proactive chatbot?

by diogopublio on 12/7/2022, 3:06:06 PM with 1 comments
ChatGPT is based on you asking a question and they answering. You are the one excited and interested in the conversation and the other side is reactive.

What about the contrary ? How would you change the prompts or send hidden prompts between conversations to make ChatGPT the one actually interested in you, and not the contrary ?

I tried asking questions with the additional "(answer with a follow up question)", but it didn't always worked.

  • by PaulHoule on 12/7/2022, 3:19:52 PM

    Early chatbots (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) could come very close to fooling people with two skills: (1) active listening and (2) changing the subject.

    I'd suggest writing a few paragraphs describing the above behaviors in great detail.